A large conch shell that had been languishing in a museum for decades has been revealed as the oldest known seashell instrument after archaeologists examined it more closely and realized belatedly ...

A conch shell found in a cave used by the Magdalenian people of the late Upper Palaeolithic was originally thought to be a cup, but a new analysis suggests they used it as a kind of horn. That would ...

The Wordle word of the day is conch, which at first feels deceptively mild. A shell. A beachside curiosity. Something you ...

Snoring is not just annoying for the people we share our beds with, it can be a sign of a serious sleep disorder called obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Besides snoring, OSA shows itself through ...

A horn made from a conch shell over 17,000 years ago has blasted out musical notes for the first time in millennia. Archaeologists originally found the seashell in 1931, in a French cave that contains ...

After 18,000 years of silence, an ancient musical instrument played its first notes. The last time anyone heard a sound from the conch shell trumpet, thick sheets of ice still covered most of Europe.